Prevented from hiking back to civilization by rivers swollen with spring run-off, McCandless had starved to death. Two years after he left on his trip, McCandless was found dead in an abandoned bus a few miles into the Alaskan wilderness. Months after he left, his car was found washed up in a ditch in the desert with no evidence of foul play. McCandless told neither family nor friends where he was headed. In 1990, 22-year-old Chris McCandless left what seemed to be a privileged life in Annandale, Virginia, gave away most of his money, and began a cross-country journey. Prior to watching the film, students can be told the following: Introduction, Class Discussion, and Writing Assignments Because of the R rating, TWM strongly recommends getting administrative and parental permission before showing the film. There is nothing sensual about either of these scenes. There is also a fleeting glimpse of two women walking at a nudist colony. There is one scene in which a Scandinavian girl is talking with her boyfriend and McCandless without wearing anything above the waist. The nudity is simply three women shown going about their lives. The remaining profanity consists of infrequent examples of garden variety four-letter words that teenagers have heard many times. Adults concerned about this language can turn the volume down for three or four seconds during this scene. Most of the gross language is uttered by the hippie Rainey in brief comments while McCandless is doing sit-ups. Two reasons are given for the R rating: gross language and nudity.
INTO THE WILD BOOK OR MOVIE MOVIE
TWM advises using this movie despite its R rating because the benefits of the film far outweigh any negatives. McCandless is shown slowly wasting away and then dying. Squirrels and a moose are killed for food, and the audience is shown a squirrel being roasted and the moose being cut-up and dismembered. McCandless is badly beaten by a railroad bull.
There is some profanity and crude language. There are brief scenes referring to lovemaking that has just occurred or in which we can only hear murmuring and laughter or see people after lovemaking. There is nothing sensual about the scenes of nudity.
There are short scenes of nudity including brief glimpses of people in a nudist colony and a short scene in which a young Scandinavian woman appears without her top and without embarrassment.
See Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction: How Movies Can Help.Ĭlick Here for the specific College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards, set out in the 2010 Common Core State Standards, which are served by this Learning Guide. This Guide provides discussion questions and writing assignments for the study of the book. The book, Into the Wild, by John Krakauer, is an excellent nonfiction text for students in grades 10 – 12. In addition to Jack London, the Guide offers the opportunity to briefly introduce students to Lord Byron, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau. The Guide contains multiple assignments of formal and informal writing and an introduction to the history of American adventurism. With respect to the ELA curriculum, this Learning Guide assists teachers in using the movie to provide context for the study of Jack London and particularly for his short story “To Build a Fire.” It contains opportunities for students to explore the ideas in the movie and its use of literary allusion.
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